Mar 3

Written by: roy
3/3/2008 11:35 AM

A Houston Chronicle columnist or letter writer can call a Republican, George Bush, or a conservative just about any kind of sheep-killing dog they want to, accuse them of any kind of nastiness they can conjure up, and promote liberals and liberal agendas all they want, but does that cut both ways?  What follows are some examples of what was said about conservatives in the HC in January and February of this year.  Let me preface by saying that this part is a little long, but I follow it with the derogatory remarks made about liberals and conservative agenda-promoting during the same time period:

1. 1/1; “Another voice” (the NYT) saying that “government secrecy has become even a “higher and darker art under the Bush administration”.
2. 1/2; Atul Gawande blames “the administration” for stopping lifesaving medical provider checklist efforts.
3. 1/4; Editorial; “Republican’s vitriol against illegal immigrants”, and “Democrat’s job will be to get eligible Hispanics registered and to the polls”, there’s 2 messages here; Hispanics need to vote democrat, and the democrats need to be sure and recruit them.
4. 1/5; Editorial; Obama’s candidacy “an exciting turn in the nation’s presidential politics”.
5. 1/6; Moises Naim; the world is dying to see new leadership from the U.S., and an end to the America of pre-emptive strikes, to one that deals with MMGW, and “foots the bill”.  Two MMGW pieces, including one that says that Texans should lead the fight against MMGW since we will be underwater soon.
6. 1/7; Jay Aiyer says just say no to school vouchers.
7. 1/8; Ted Kennedy’s “No Child Left Behind Needs Fixing”, (blaming on Bush).
8. 1/9; Rick Casey’s cheerleading “Obama has Dems Giddy”, (Casey’s giddy too).
9. 1/10; Lisa Falkenberg’s rant against Charles Bacarisse for daring to mention immigrant healthcare costs.
10. 1/13; George Will (I thought he was one of our guys), writes a piece titled “This could be the worst since 1964 for hapless GOP”.
11. 1/14; “It’s The Economy” editorial, saying that holiday retail sales were the lowest in 5 years, (according to the National Retail Federation, the “Growth” in retail sales was actually what was lowest in 5 years).  Retail sales were actually up 3% over 2006.
12. 1/18; In one of the 2-month’s best, Rick Casey’s did some more Democrat cheerleading and came to the defense of Democrat State Representative, and self described thug, Borris Miles, who allegedly pulled a gun on some folks at a recent party, and also allegedly forcibly kissed another man’s wife.  Of this escapade, Casey quoted Democrat  Garnet Coleman; “people don’t expect us to be perfect”.  The real story behind this column is that the Democrats are “in a bind” to replace Tom Craddick, and they need Miles, who is opposed by Al Edwards in the next election, a man that I guess the dems (and their boy Casey), don’t think they can count on.
13. Ellen Goodman asks whether “the country is, if fact, eager for something different, in a post-polarization frame of mind”
14. 1/20; Casey wrote of Sheriff Tommy Thomas’ decision to erase all department e-mails, “He noticed that some of his deputies wear WWJD (what would Jesus do?) bracelets, like the District Attorney.  He didn’t want to take any chances about what extramarital love notes, racist jokes, or porn might be on their computers”.  Casey’s “Erase Gate” was later debunked by the Sheriff Department’s Network Administrator Willie Mata.
15. 1/22; In promoting John McCain over republican rivals, E.J. Dionne describes a “Republican political machine that punishes free thinking”, and says McCain “bravely opposed Bushes tax cuts”.
16. More Rick Casey cheerleading for democrat Rick Noriega (Democrat running for the U.S. Senate).
17. 1/26; Krugman’s hit piece on Ronald Reagan (he sold missiles to Iran). 
18. Helen Thomas didn’t come right out and say that Bush lied, she couldn’t resist saying that “the war was based on falsehoods”, thereby trying to keep alive the lie that Bush lied.
19. 1/27; More Rick Casey ranting about erased e-mails, hoping that Democrats can take advantage of these “scandals” and sweep the GOP out of office like they did in Dallas in 2006.
20. David Brooks saying that John McCain’s success shows that the “GOP is more amenable to independent thought”.
21. 1/29; Broder says that Fred Thompson “left a blanket of boredom behind when he exited the (GOP) race”.
22. 1/30; An amazingly stupid editorial, blasting Paul Wolfowitz, and accusing him of a false statement (this one goes to the top of the “Dumbest Editorial of the Year” nominees list).
23. 2/4; Clay Robison does his usual cheerleading for the dems, and then quotes former governor Mark White as saying “Republicans will let their dirty tricksters unleash racial attacks against Obama if he becomes the first black presidential nominee”.
24. 2/5; E.J. Dionne says: “Intimidation by Republicans”, “the unfairness of Republican economic policies”, “Republican bullying on national security”, (Obama) “liberated from the old myth of the Reagan era”, (Obama’s Republican support) “liberation from divisiveness”.
25. 2/6; An editorial saying “many states have been radicalized directly because of the perceived brutality of U.S. foreign policy”.  Another Voice (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch), says that “since 1994, the year that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich led the so-called Republican Revolution, the FDA has lost 1,311 employees.  Adjusted for inflation, its budget is down by nearly $300 million over those 14 years”.  Why is this blamed on the GOP?  Wasn’t Bill Clinton president during those years?
26. 2/8; Editorial saying that the Texas Supreme Court “is ideologically conservative, to the detriment of justice”.
27. 2/9; Nicholas Kristoff recommends that dems cozy up to evangelicals, and then says: “Self-righteous zealots like Pat Robertson have been a plague upon our country”, evangelicals have been key “to taking the climate change issue across the cultural divide”, (they are) “moralizing blowhards”, “religious right-wing windbags”.  David Brooks whose column is a poster for conservatives writing for liberals.  He says Hillary has been “an outstanding Senator”.
28. 2/10; Neal Pierce, says that sexual predator laws (Jessica’s Law, Megan’s Law), do more harm than good.
29. 2/13; Krugman says that the Bush Administration is a “cult of personality”, and defines it as “Nixonland; a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen.
30. 2/15; Rick Casey cites the GOP for “hostility to Mexican immigrants that has since become part of the Republican rhetoric”.  I think he left out the word “illegal”.
31. 2/17; R. G. Ratcliffe says that one of Rick Noriega’s “most notable legislative accomplishments was passage of a bill that guaranteed in-state college tuition to children raised in Texas, regardless of their legal status.  The piece goes on to say that (those bad old) “Conservatives have attacked the law and tried to repeal it”.  Do you think “regardless of legal status”, means that this law applies to illegal aliens?
32. 2/20; Editorial about Fidel Castro’s resignation, saying that “Forward thinking members of Congress” (Democrats), “have pushed to take advantage of this moment”, and goes on to quote Sheila Jackson Lee.
33. 2/21; Maureen Dowd says that “Cindy McCain showed that Republicans would jump right on a line like that, and twist it into something that sounded extremist and unpatriotic” (Michelle Obama’s statement about not being proud of her country).
34. 2/22; Another Voice, the Washington Post (naturally), saying that “the Supreme Court during recent terms has relied on cramped legal analysis to deny fairness to workers and criminal defendants in several notable cases”.
35. 2/23; Paul Krugman says that “if the next president is a Republican, he will be captive to the doctrine that tax cuts are the answer to all problems, and therefore won’t seek an effective response to the economy’s troubles”.
36. 2/25; Clay Robison says, “All that could spell trouble for Republican primary candidates who are considered moderate, a description almost as bad as “liberal” in the eyes of the right-wing GOP base”.

 

Now here are the derogatory remarks made about liberals and/or promoting conservatives or conservative agendas during the same time period:

 

 

 

 

 Get the picture?

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